Mark Sagona : manifesting the soul

Abstract

Mark Sagona (b.1976) comes from an artistically gifted family and received his first training in the workshop of his father Joseph (b.1942) who through hard work and personal sacrifice has earned a deserved reputation as a designer and decorator. His rigorously academic upbringing gave him the essential preparation for subsequent studies at the Malta Government School of Art, and the Life Classes at Targa Gap, directed by the artist Anton Calleya (b.1955). His significant breakthrough came, on the other hand, through the contacts he established, as a History of Art candidate at the University of Malta, with the artist and academic, Dr. Joseph Paul Cassar (b.1958). Dr. Cassar's stimulating classes in Modern and Contemporary Art History, revealed new artistic horizons. They brought him into contact with, and taught him to appreciate, a visual language that he had previously largely ignored. More importantly, they opened up exciting new possibilities of pictorial expression that he is now assiduously exploiting.